India, June 21 -- Last week, some attendants and relatives of a patient in Kolkata badly assaulted a doctor. The incident created an explosive situation in medical profession effective services in hospitals across the country. The doctors went on strike in protest all over the country leading to sufferings of hundreds of thousands of patients as Out Patient Departments were shut in hospitals. They were demanding adequate security and protection in hospitals.
On the other hand, patients and their relatives say that the only objective of doctors these days is to make money by all means. They are bent upon 'looting' patients. They (doctors) prescribe one test after another even in the case when tests are not required for treatment. Once tests...